Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art - 6 of 10
Camille Pissarro
French, 1830-1903
Port of Rouen: Unloading Wood
1898
Oil on canvas
73 x 92.1 cm
Acquired by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in honor of John E. Sawyer (Trustee 1962-89), 1989
1989.3
Notes:
This picture belongs to a series of industrialized marine subjects that Pissarro made in Rouen in 1896 and 1898. Painted with a more somber palette than his earlier landscapes, the rigorously organized composition, a sequence of interlocking horizontal and parallel forms, brings a sense of order and stability to the bustling harbor scene.
